<TITLE>05. Par 17-19</TITLE>L-17 I've chosen tonight for just a little short text... And I trust that you'll catch what the Holy Spirit is trying to say in this. It's found in Saint John the 6th chapter and the 20th verse.
But he said unto them, It is I; be not afraid.
It must have been that great strong fisherman called Peter, who a few hours before had pushed the boat off of the bank into the Sea of Galilee. And then, walking up from the bow of the boat which was headed into the shore, taking his seat by the side of his brother, Andrew, and picking up an oar. For in those days, they were a man on one side and one on the other. Maybe six or eight man oared the little boats, what they call, "ships." And as they pushed out and pulled the boat around into the position to cross the sea... And they was waving good-bye to those Christian friends, believers on the bank. And we're taught here that it was almost dark. And they had been bidden to go over to the other side.

L-18 And as soon as the last one quit waving, and they turned back to their homes, it must have been young John, as he was the youth of the group, with his hand on his face said something like this, "I don't see how He did it, for I looked and seen there was only five of those little biscuits and two little small fishes. But how did He break that and feed five thousand, five thousand men besides the women and children. And I watched His hands, for I was standing near each time I come with the basket, and seen Him take up a little biscuit and break off a--a chunk of it and put it in the basket, and reach back and break out another piece."
He was young. He said, "I just can't understand how there was more bread baked. Oh, if He would've had an oven and had baked it, and--and had the wheat and so forth, I might have understood it. But He didn't. He bypassed the procession of, and the regular natural run of raising the wheat, and grinding it, and milling it, and sifting it, and shortenings, and salt, and seasonings, and put it in the oven and break it. He just broke it and handed it."

L-19 Then one in the back, maybe it was Bartholomew said something like this, "You know He... That proves that He is the Son of Jehovah. For we are taught in our holy Scriptures that our forefathers lived forty years on created bread that come from God out of heaven."
And as the little boat moved on, the conversation continued how that He must be somewhere in contact with God. Of course, God was in Him working His will. The Scripture says that God was in Christ reconciling Himself to the world.
And then Peter said, setting by the side of his brother, Andrew, looked over to him and said, "Andrew, when you first come and told me of such a Man that you had found, I doubted your word. But when I walked up in His Presence, and He said, 'Your name is Simon, your father's name is Jonas,' that settled it with me."
"For we are taught in our holy Scriptures that Moses, the one that we believe, wrote unto us and said, 'The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet liken unto me.' And I knew that the Messiah must be a God-prophet. And when I knew that He did not know me, and that was the first time He'd ever saw me, and yet called me by my name and told me about my daddy, I knew that was Him."


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